From afar, San Francisco’s skyline looks pristine and thriving. But take a closer look. From how we interact with each other to vivid displays of the widening divide between rich and poor, it ...

Susan Kelk Cervantes is one of San Francisco's longest-practicing muralists. She is the founder and director of the famed Precita Eyes. These are two of her earliest murals, painted on the side of ...

It's now been five years since the arrival of San Francisco's first official permanent parklet, in 2010, though spontaneous takeovers of parking spots began back in 2005, when Rebar Group converted ...

On Thursdays, Dexter-Lee worked at the Immigration Station with Dale Ching, a volunteer docent who had been detained on Angel Island as a 16-year-old. Initially hesitant to return to the island ...

Much ink has been spilled on the history of Chinatown and Grant Avenue, billed as San Francisco’s oldest street, which runs north to south starting at Market Street and ending at Francisco ...

Bolinas wanted to stay hidden—then came the internet Short-term rentals and a dearth of housing have helped push working families out of this coastal enclave ...

Here now, a map of San Francisco's best secret gardens. On the map you'll find historic gardens being preserved on Alcatraz Island, a forest in the Tenderloin, a mini park rich with flowering ...

Transit report shows that the southeastern neighborhood remains a diverse working-class hub, but the African-American culture that once defined it has almost vanished.

The Westerfeld House: San Francisco's most storied Victorian The story of how Jim Siegel bought the landmark Victorian is a long, strange trip ...

As San Francisco grapples with how to protect thousands of homeless residents from the spread of COVID-19, the city has told shelters to stop admitting new people in an effort to allow for more ...

Now that the first season of HBO's Looking has wrapped, Let's take a backward glance at the various locations spotted in this season's eight episodes. From the beginning, Looking wasn't running on ...

One of Alamo Square’s famous and frequently photographed Painted Ladies is up for sale, an event akin to a singular astronomical alignment or the visit of a foreign dignitary—not unheard of ...